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  • Bat 1K - an interview with Emma Teeling

    Bat 1K - an interview with Emma Teeling
    Apr 6 2018
    There's over 1300 species of bat in the world, and Bat 1K (http://bat1k.ucd.ie/) wants to sequence them all. Hear from director Emma Teeling from University College Dublin about the consortium's goals and strategies, and why understanding bats better is so important.

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    24 min
  • Spontaneous Dog Models of Spinal Cord Injury: An Interview with Sarah Moore

    Spontaneous Dog Models of Spinal Cord Injury: An Interview with Sarah Moore
    Dec 6 2017
    In this month's interview, we're chatting with Sarah Moore, a veterinarian and researcher at the Ohio State University. Sarah studies spinal cord injury, an often debilitating condition that affects thousands of people as well as pets each year. We talk about Sarah's work and why she thinks the search for treatments to help our canine companions living with spinal cord injuries - termed spontaneous dog models - could also help human patients.

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    21 min
  • Dirty Mice: An Interview With Andrea Graham

    Dirty Mice: An Interview With Andrea Graham
    Oct 27 2017
    Ever wonder how well the phenotype of your mouse model would hold up in the real world? In this interview, Andrea Graham, an evolutionary ecologist at Princeton University who studies host-parasite interactions , describes her team's effort to dirty up clean lab mice by setting them free on a farm in New Jersey. Their goal is to understand how a little time with Mother Nature changes their microbiomes and genotype-phenotype relationships.

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    34 min
  • Malaria in Pregnancy: An Interview With Patrick Duffy From The NIH:NIAID

    Malaria in Pregnancy: An Interview With Patrick Duffy From The NIH:NIAID
    Oct 6 2017
    In this podcast we talk with Dr. Patrick Duffy, Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Chief of the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology. We discuss his work in both basic and clinical research in malaria, how he balances lab research using animal models with his human studies directly testing malaria vaccines, and his history of research overseas in areas directly impacted by malaria. He also discusses his interests in malaria in pregnancy, a severe form of malaria that has been a main thrust of his research interests for decades.

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    30 min
  • One Health With Laura Kahn

    One Health With Laura Kahn
    Aug 17 2017
    An interview with Laura Kahn , co-founder of the One Health Initiative, and author of "One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance". Laura describes the gaps between human, animal, and environmental health, and the importance of bridging them through the One Health concept.

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    21 min
  • Preclinical HIV/AIDS research: interview with Koen Van Rompay

    Preclinical HIV/AIDS research: interview with Koen Van Rompay
    May 26 2017
    Koen Van Rompay discusses the history of HIV/AIDS research, the importance of primate models in developing powerful anti-retroviral therapies, and his global health work to help fight stigma and the social barriers that prevent us from halting HIV/AIDS transmission.

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    19 min